BRAWL IN THE HALL – Town Council heavyweights Jim Crocker and Fred Chirigotis will go as many rounds as necessary to decide the winner.

First round of friendly fisticuffs next week

Coming off a successful weekend of boxing at the Hyannis Youth and Community Center, promoters are looking to expand their audience by relocating the ring in front of the cameras in the town council chambers.

Event promoter Dawn King said that the change of venue sparked interest among member of the town council, who sought reasons to extend the length and complexity of their meetings. Councilors will go head to head in matches years in the making.

“I think it’s a win-win for the community,” King said. “Sure it’s amateur and difficult to watch, but it will give people something to talk about the next day.”

On top of the card is a bout between former leadership partners Fred Chirigotis and Jim Crocker. Chirigotis is looking to reaffirm his razor-thin control of Barnstable’s legislative body. Crocker wants to get past the six-count that’s kept him down.

In his days as an island merchant, Crocker was known to take a punch, but he hopes to be on the giving end in his bout with Chirigotis.

“I understand what it means to bleed Raider red, but I believe it will be the council president bleeding the colors of whatever high school he went to,” Crocker said during a duly posted training session.

The council president was decidedly more coy.

“I think we’ll have two competitors in the same ring and there will be an outcome,” Fred “The Attorney” Chirigotis said.

He’s been training behind closed doors, but made a commitment to release information about his methods sometime before 2019.

“There will come a time when it’s time,” Chirigotis said.

In the continuing battle of Officers v. Also-Rans, Council Vice President Jan Barton will face Barnstable Village Councilor Ann Canedy in three rambling rounds.

Barton has a distinct advantage on height and reach, but Canedy’s strategy of muttering just below comprehension may have a rope-a-dope effect on the vice president.

Too many councilors lined up to take on outgoing councilor Greg Milne of Hyannis, so a kangaroo ringer was being called in from the Buttonwood Zoo.

Former Council administrator Donald Grissom was a last minute scratch for a three-round bout with the council’s top employee. Reached at an informal dinner in Cotuit, Grissom had no comment.

In a special exhibition, frequent public commenters John Julius and Al Baker will put more than their opinions to the test.

“I was just going to enjoy watching my good friends on the council pummel one another, but the hockey player in me couldn’t resist,” Julius said.

Baker, who’s beaten his share of adversaries in recent years, was equally bold and understated.

“I got nothin’ against John, but I’ll whoop him all the same,” he said.